Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ghost Stories. At a soiree held to swap stories, the Duchess of Hamilton, who specializes in healing, told of flooding one patient so strongly with her curative power that his watch stopped as though electrically shocked. Some one else told of having summoned Edward VII of England, who exclaimed upon arrival: "There are no kings here. Call me Teddy!" A Scotch doctor had spoken from "beyond" with a rich burr. A baritone spirit had sung Love's Old Sweet Song quite loudly...
...Perkin Medal (gift of organized U. S. Chemistry) in 1920 "for such valuable contributions to Chemistry (especially sugar refining gas manufacture, petroleum refining, photography, dyeing), that he has placed the whole world in his debt," holder of certain honorary degrees never previously conferred on anyone but Edward VII, President of the Health Department of New York City under Mayors Havemeyer and Ely, originator of free vaccination, educator, professor, distinguished and beloved lecturer; from nephritis, at Hartford, Conn...
...name of His Majesty Haakon VII, King of Norway, Paal O. Berg, Norwegian Minister of Justice, last week formally annexed the archipelago of Spitsbergen (Svalbard to the Norwegians, meaning "cool coast...
...hunting box built by Louis VII in the latter part of the 12th Century and added to by subsequent kings, which came to be known as the Palais de Fontainebleau, was in danger of being destroyed last week by fire. Yokels, burghers, firemen, policemen, guards, women, children and troops, helped to put out the fire before any material damage had been done...
...Elder and Julius Caesar extolled its fame as one of the best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...